[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37056] struct syntax error in array

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #37056 (project octave):

              Item Group:              Regression => None                   
                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This is not a bug.  For compatibility with Matlab, spaces are treated
specially inside [] and {}.  Please see

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Matrices.html#Matrices

for more info.

Also, in the future, please use "verbatim" tags to quote code snippets.  I was
only able to tell that there were differences in the spacing by looking at the
email that the bug tracker sent, not by looking at the report on the web.

To clarify for others who may look here later, the code that generates the
error is


[struct ("nam","ee")]


and Octave generates an error because the space after "struct" is handled
specially and Octave parses this as if you had written


[struct, ("nam","ee")]


and


("nam","ee")


is not valid syntax.

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